Opa Hans and some of his RAD comrades were "stripped" by american troops, shortly after the surrender 1945 in Bavaria.
The GIs were in particular interested about handguns, decorations and dress daggers, "collectors"...
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Opa Hans lost one of his handguns, a Mauser HSC at that time, but these men were happy to survive the war at all, after that they walked home to northern germany, about 900 kilometer, by foot...
Michael